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I’ve had a few medical issues I mentioned here and in this Open Mic.
I called my doctor and sent him my blood pressure numbers for the last 5 days. He’s going to make a slight adjustment in my meds and wants me to call him if there are any drastic changes. I’ll be having blood work done this Friday and I’ll be in touch with him early next week.

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No, I’m a half hour away from there. A 1.5-ton rocket shaped piece of the boiler shot through the roof of the plant and flew 500 feet before crashing into another business and killed two people there who were just starting their very first day of working there.

So… today I did something that to me is super exciting, and I need to share. I booked a day tour in Russia!!! It’s part of a larger trip I’m doing at the end of the month, with a group of people I regularly travel with, and the entire trip is pretty damn exciting.

Mary, we only went to St. Petersburg, mostly the very very VERY crowded Hermitage Museum, and Peterhof Palace.

The entire trip was two weeks, and included a couple days in Iceland, and then Stockholm, from where we took a trip to some Northern Baltic countries, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, as well as our Russia day. After the cruise we took a train from Stockholm to Copenhagen, and had a couple days there, as well.

I tried to post links to my Facebook albums for Iceland, but the site thinks it’s spam, so I can’t.

If you want to find me on FB, you can look at my albums without joining FB, or friending me, if you’d like:

thanks for thinking of me!
I guess Mount Mayon finally blew and around 200,000 people are scrambling. Fortunately for me, the volcano is around 300 miles north of my little island of Negros and we were not affected.

I haven’t been posting anything lately as my old outdated mac doesn’t function properly on most of todays more modern internet sites, I’ll learn more about Mayon when I read todays Manila Bulletin and let you know, I still visit B&P, but can’t post.

An update…

The volcano did not ‘blow’ as feared, but it did erupt with a dazzling display of lava spewing out of the top, The biggest concern now is all of the evacuees that are away from home and waiting for it to settle down.

“A ‘major eruption’ may not happen” is what the Manila Bulletin said. Tourists are starting to flock in for photos.

Whew! That’s good to hear that he’s ok. I will be sure to keep the name of his island handy so i can look it up next time. Then, I giggled — because I really don’t anyone other than “X” in the Philippines. And I so get an F in the geography of the islands. I giggled because It’s like asking someone you’ve just met “Hey, you live in that exotic land! Great! Say, do you know Bob So-and-So?” And I SMH. At myself.